Green was one of the younger sons of Jesse Leavithe and Elizabeth "Betsy" Andrews Garrett. Like his father and brothers, he was a shoemaker by trade. He served on the side of the Union during the Civil War, eventually making the rank of sergeant in Company E of the 4th Kentucky Infantry. He was discharged at Macon, Georgia in August, 1865. A physical description was given of him when he applied for a pension on june 29, 1926. He stood 5'11" tall, had a fair complexion, light hair and blue eyes. On November 23, 1865 he married Julia Louisa Wyckoff at Montgomery County, Kentucky. The couple became parents to eight children, seven of whom survived their childhood to become adults. The obvious pride that Green must have had to have served in the Union forces during the Civil War showed in the names of three of his children: Elizabeth Lincoln Garrett, William Sheridan Garrett, and James Gillespie Blaine Garrett. The last few years of Green and Julia's lives were spent living in the home of their daughter, Ida and her husband John Wesley Waugh and family at Kiddville, Kentucky. Green suffered from kidney problems for several years prior to his death, and those problems are what finally took his life.
Green was one of the younger sons of Jesse Leavithe and Elizabeth "Betsy" Andrews Garrett. Like his father and brothers, he was a shoemaker by trade. He served on the side of the Union during the Civil War, eventually making the rank of sergeant in Company E of the 4th Kentucky Infantry. He was discharged at Macon, Georgia in August, 1865. A physical description was given of him when he applied for a pension on june 29, 1926. He stood 5'11" tall, had a fair complexion, light hair and blue eyes. On November 23, 1865 he married Julia Louisa Wyckoff at Montgomery County, Kentucky. The couple became parents to eight children, seven of whom survived their childhood to become adults. The obvious pride that Green must have had to have served in the Union forces during the Civil War showed in the names of three of his children: Elizabeth Lincoln Garrett, William Sheridan Garrett, and James Gillespie Blaine Garrett. The last few years of Green and Julia's lives were spent living in the home of their daughter, Ida and her husband John Wesley Waugh and family at Kiddville, Kentucky. Green suffered from kidney problems for several years prior to his death, and those problems are what finally took his life.
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